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Bob Willard

Bob Willard

Author & Speaker

Bob is a leading expert on quantifying and selling the business value of corporate sustainability strategies and has given over 1,300 presentations to corporate, government, university, and NGO audiences. Bob applies his business and leadership experience from his 34-year career at IBM Canada to engage the business community in proactively avoiding risks and capturing opportunities by using smart environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies.

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Tools for Making the Business Case, Directing Resources and Measuring Progress
Tools for Making the Business Case, Directing Resources and Measuring Progress
Published on November 9, 2020
Runtime: 14:05

Sustainability guru Bob Willard has decades of experience creating and applying practical tools that help executives model any multicapital initiative or innovation, on any level, showing a full range of benefits and costs upfront and tracking perfor... View More

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Community Updates
Breakthrough Impact Measurement Tools Revealing at New Metrics ‘18
Breakthrough Impact Measurement Tools Revealing at New Metrics ‘18
Published on October 24, 2018
About a 4 minute read

EcoAct, Novo Nordisk, B Lab and others sharing new research and performance metrics, Oct 29-31 in Philadelphia SAN FRANCISCO, October 24, 2018 – Members of the Sustainable Brands® community will gather next week for the 8th annual New Metrics conf... View More

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Organizational GovernanceOrganizational Governance
Transformational Leadership in Action ... and In Transition
Transformational Leadership in Action ... and In Transition
Published on June 11, 2018
About a 6 minute read

Last week, over 2,000 representatives from our global community of sustainability practitioners, brand strategists, product and service innovators, thought leaders and other change-makers converged at SB’18 Vancouver to share their latest insights ... View More

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Finance & Investment
CPAs and Sustainability Thought Leadership: An Interview with RISCPA CEO Bob Mancini
CPAs and Sustainability Thought Leadership: An Interview with RISCPA CEO Bob Mancini
Published on November 13, 2017
About a 6 minute read

Ahead of his attendance at this week’s New Metrics ’17 conference in Philadelphia, we caught up with Bob Mancini, CEO of the Rhode Island Society of CPAs (RISCPA), to learn more about why the concept of sustainability is finally being recognized ... View More

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New Metrics
#NewMetrics '15: Willard, Gowdy Present the Holy Grail of Managing Non-Financial Performance
#NewMetrics '15: Willard, Gowdy Present the Holy Grail of Managing Non-Financial Performance
Published on October 8, 2015
About a 4 minute read

“As a business community we are making progress, but not enough, and not fast enough. ... View More

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New Metrics
How Can We Assess the Future-Fitness, or True Sustainability, of Our Businesses?
How Can We Assess the Future-Fitness, or True Sustainability, of Our Businesses?
Published on June 2, 2015
About a 3 minute read

Geoff Kendall, co-founder and CEO of the Future-Fit Foundation, set the stage by calling into question most of the existing sustainability performance metrics, which he believes are sending business leaders and investors the wrong signals; “if some... View More

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